Maus

“Maus” is considered to be one of the best graphic novels ever written. Art Spiegelman used his parents’ experiences and his relationship with his parents to write this graphic novel. I really liked it because it was very different from the traditional way of reading a novel for an English class. The graphic novel is divided into two volumes. The first one deals with the holocaust and the second one deals with the relationship between father and son. I liked how the author, Spiegelman, used animals in order to portray the people from different countries. My favorite although it didn’t had that much importance in the novel was the British portrayed as fish and the French portrayed as frogs. I liked it because I thought it was funny. I thought that was very disturbing when Vladik calls Artie, Richie at the end of the graphic novel. It made me really mad and it made me think really bad about Vladik and how bad a father he was because it made me think that he was being nice and was having a parent-son relationship with Artie because he remembered him of Richie. I think that people should know about this book because it can change the way they think of “comics” and the way they think of literature, because in a “fun” way Art Spiegelman told us about the holocaust and about his fathers’ experiences. This book is not only about the holocaust it is also about father-son relationships and Spiegelman portrayed this in a very good manner.